[advocacy-discuss] Proposal for Jadavpur University OpenSolaris User Group

[elw at stderr.org]

1) Kolkata was formerly Calcutta, right?  [I had to go to wikipedia to 
check, not being terribly familiar with India's geography...]

2) Jim - I notice that all the country portal entries are green now: great 
work :)

3) Should the community be expecting an OSUG spin-up from every Campus 
Ambassador hire?


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On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, shalmoli gupta wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:47:45 +0530
> From: shalmoli gupta <shalmoli at gmail.com>
> To: advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: [advocacy-discuss] Proposal for Jadavpur University OpenSolaris User
>     Group
> 
> *Proposal for Jadavpur University OpenSolaris User Group Project (JU-OSUG) *
>
> **
> **
> *Purpose:* To drive awareness and adoption of OpenSolaris among the students
> and faculty at Jadavpur University (JU), Kolkata, India
>
>
>
> *Project Administrator** :* Shalmoli Gupta, Sun CA JU, Kolkata
>
> shalmoli at gmail dot com
>
> *Project Description** :* The purpose of this project is to drive
> OpenSolaris awareness amongst student and professional community in JU. The
> target audience will mostly be students. I and in future other members of
> this group want to increase OpenSolaris adoption in labs and student
> projects. I and in future other members of this group want the help of the
> college alumni in the industry to guide us in these efforts. The group will
> plan to initiate workshops and user group meetings on campus with a focus on
> promoting the competitive advantages of OpenSolaris for research,
> development and teaching.
>
>
> The project will also archive its contributions like student projects,
> presentations, and other material to the project space on the OpenSolaris
> site.
>
> *Project Needs:* This project requires project space on
> OpenSolaris.orgsite. The project also requires a mailing list.
>
> Suggested list name is*  "ju-osug at opensolaris dot org"* .
>
> *Related Projects:* I and in future other members of this group would like
> to closely watch the successful user groups and see if we can work with them
> to do related activities .
>
>
> The request for this user group is principally to complete the prerequisite
> steps to start my work as CA in JU Kolkata, India as guided in the Sun
> Campus Ambassador handbook.
>
> Eagerly waiting for approval from user group administrators and instructions
> for taking further steps in this regard.
>
> Regards
> Shalmoli Gupta
> Sun CA,JU,Kolkata
>